Asian airlines start to recover
Asia's airline industry is beginning to pull out of a severe slump sparked by the global recession with signs that passenger numbers have started to recover, a regional body said on...
AAP -
Friday November 20, 2009, 3:36 pm
Jet's cockpit warning probed by ATSB
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating why warning alerts went off in the cockpit of a Virgin Blue plane on approach to Darwin Airport earlier this month.
It happened on a 737...
ABC Business News -
Friday November 20, 2009, 9:32 am
Singapore Out Of The Red, Sees Growth in 2010
Singapore now sees its economy solidly back in the black in 2010 after confirming that it grew strongly in the third quarter. The country's Trade and Industry Ministry issued a flash third...
Australasian Investment Review -
Friday November 20, 2009, 8:14 am
Public Sector Boosts Wages
Nothing at all for interest rates from the September quarter Labour Price Index from the Australian Bureau of Statistics except to say that once again the public sector has been very generous with...
Australasian Investment Review -
Thursday November 19, 2009, 8:42 am
Small, Medium Business More Confident
The National Australia Bank's latest quarterly survey of confidence and conditions for small and medium businesses has shown a sharp improvement. The rise echoes the big improvement reported last...
Australasian Investment Review -
Wednesday November 18, 2009, 8:33 am
No systemic problems with plane oxygen bottles
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says it has found no evidence of systemic safety problems with oxygen bottles like those involved in a Qantas incident last year.
An oxygen cylinder...
ABC Business News -
Tuesday November 17, 2009, 12:19 pm
Britain's Rolls-Royce gets $2 bln in orders
LONDON (AFP) - British aircraft-engine maker Rolls-Royce said on Monday that it had secured orders worth two billion dollars (1.33 billion euros) from Air China and Ethiopian Airlines.The...
AFP Finance News -
Monday November 16, 2009, 9:06 pm
BA-Iberia Merger Confirms Qantas' Class
Qantas has had another escape from a lunacy contemplated by the airline's board, this one only a year ago. It came 18 months after the May, 2007 attempt by private equity to snatch...
Australasian Investment Review -
Monday November 16, 2009, 8:33 am
Commodities: Oil Weak
Gold extended its record breaking run, oil was weak, but the big mover in commodities was the sharp rise in the freight market late last week. The Baltic Dry index, the global benchmark for...
Australasian Investment Review -
Monday November 16, 2009, 8:31 am
AHG says outlook for 2010 is positive
Car retailer and automotive logistics firm Automotive Holdings Group Ltd (AHG) says the outlook is positive for the 2010 financial year and the first four months of trading were much better than last...
AAP -
Friday November 13, 2009, 5:18 pm
S&P/ASX Infrastructure Index to join ASX
The performance of transport and utilities stocks will be measured as a group from Monday when a new infrastructure index debuts on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).Global ratings agency...
AAP -
Thursday November 12, 2009, 1:15 pm
NAB 1: Economy Stronger than Thought
The economy is blooming after what the National Australia Bank said yesterday was a ''remarkable' rise in confidence, and a big positive rise in conditions in October. On Monday...
Australasian Investment Review -
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 8:20 am
Cyprus opens new airport to attract tourism, trade
LARNACA, Cyprus (AFP) - Cyprus opened an ultra-modern airport on Saturday that it hopes will boost flagging tourism and boost prospects of it becoming a regional transport hub.Cypriot President...
AFP Finance News -
Sunday November 8, 2009, 7:23 am
New national taxi standards already in NT
The Taxi Council of the Northern Territory says it already enforces many of the new national standards for taxi drivers.
The nation's transport ministers have endorsed nine national standards for...
ABC Business News -
Friday November 6, 2009, 4:47 pm
New taxi drivers must pass English test
Australia's transport ministers have approved a proposal to make taxi drivers pass an English test before they can get their licence.
Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese says almost...
ABC Business News -
Friday November 6, 2009, 2:17 pm
